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What do students at VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
442
Middle
DISTRICT 528 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362088000304
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL
2253 STORY AVE, SCHENECTADY, NY 12309 · (518) 370-1243 · Schenectady County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL442 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
106 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 149 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 135 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 158 | 36% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL→NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
81.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -18.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 81.3% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 100.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (75.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 442 | 24.0% | 75.4% |
| ORVILLE A TODD MIDDLE SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 385 | 25.7% | 66.5% |
| ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ELWOOD | 425 | 25.9% | 62.5% |
| WOODMERE MIDDLE SCHOOL HEWLETT | 644 | 25.5% | 64.4% |
| CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST AMHERST | 606 | 26.4% | 73.1% |
| HEIM MIDDLE SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 648 | 26.2% | 69.7% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.4% | #77 of 766 | #1 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #178 of 768 ▼ 146 | #4 of 9 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #105 of 768 ▼ 16 | #1 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 442 | #400 of 796 | #9 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #397 of 683 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.4% | #201 of 688 | #4 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.0% | #669 of 773 | #7 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #101 of 168 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
442
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-8% since 2000-01, when it was 479
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 12.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 442 | 41.5 | 10.7:1 | 24% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 43.3 | 9.7:1 | 24% (99) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 34.6 | 12.4:1 | 27% (117) |
| 2020-21 | 447 | 37 | 12.1:1 | 22% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 420 | 26.2 | 16.0:1 | 12% (52) |
| 2015-16 | 410 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 13% (55) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | 33 | 13.3:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 479 | 31 | 15.4:1 | 6% (31) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle school located in SCHENECTADY, New York. The latest federal count shows 442 students in grades 6 through 8.
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is run by NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 8 schools enroll 4,315 students.
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is 60% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 69% of Schenectady County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 59%, meaning two students picked at random have a 59% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL's 41.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 10.7:1. That is close to the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 24%. That is lower than the 50% average for public schools in Schenectady County.
The allk12 Grade for VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is A. Compared with New York public middle schools, the school scored higher than 87% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 66.2% for VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL. The school posts 75.4%, 9.2 points above the prediction.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Schenectady County show that the median household income is $79,623, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL, Schenectady County has 39 other public schools.
The shortest distance from VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to HILLSIDE SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 447 students in 2020-21 and 442 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.1:1 in 2020-21 to 10.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
- HILLSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 383 students
- CRAIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
- BIRCHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 376 students
- ROSENDALE SCHOOLElementary · 376 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
Nearby schools
- HILLSIDE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 383
- HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 390
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,379
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,885
- JESSIE T ZOLLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 439
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 657
Frequently asked questions
About VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 442 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.7:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 60% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 14% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL?
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by NISKAYUNA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Schenectady County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.